Staff

Ananya Agustin Malhotra is a J.D. Candidate at Yale Law School. Previously, she served as Deputy Director of the Better Order Project and Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Before joining Q.I., Ananya was a Program Officer at the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Global Nuclear Policy Program, where she worked to advance nuclear disarmament and risk reduction. She holds an MPhil in History with Distinction from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Ananya graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and is a 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow.

Brandon Carr is a studies associate at the Quincy Institute. He earned a B.A. in Political Science from The George Washington University, graduating Summa Cum Laude, and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford. He previously studied at Oxford as a Visiting Student from 2014-2015. His areas of research include strategic studies and international relations theory. His thesis at Oxford was titled “The Nixon Doctrine: A Case Study of U.S. Foreign Policy and Retrenchment During the Cold War.” Prior to joining QI, Brandon worked in federal management consulting. Brandon also interned at the Stimson Center, the Institute for the Study of War, and on Capitol Hill. He is formerly a volunteer with the American Red Cross.

Rebekkah Chatham is a Research Associate/Program Assistant with the Better Order Project at the Quincy Institute. She is also a 2024 Presidential Management Fellow Finalist. Before coming to QI, she worked in Riga, Latvia at the Baltic Security Foundation, researching Baltic history and resilience. She is the Secretary for the Baltic Security Foundation Charitable Donation. She also spent time in Albania as a Peace Corps volunteer and speaks Albanian. Originally from Houston, Texas, Rebekkah holds a B.S in Sociology from the University of Houston-Clear Lake and a Masters of International Affairs from the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, focused on Eurasian Affairs and Grand Strategy.

Brady Mabe is an independent consultant on international humanitarian law for the Quincy Institute’s Better Order Project. He is concurrently a legal adviser with the International Committee of the Red Cross, in its permanent observer mission to the United Nations in New York. Brady is licensed to practice law in the state of New York. He has previous experience working for the Permanent Mission of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the United Nations; the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; and Justice Base Myanmar. He holds a BA in linguistics from the University of Virginia and a JD from UCLA School of Law, with specializations in international & comparative law and critical race studies.

Dr. Zachary Paikin is Deputy Director of the Better Order Project and Research Fellow in the Grand Strategy Program at the Quincy Institute. He is also Senior Fellow at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy (IPD). Previously, he was Researcher in EU Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels from 2021 to 2023 and Senior Researcher in the International Security Dialogue Department at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) from 2023 to 2024. His research has focused on Russian foreign policy, European security, great power relations, and Canadian foreign policy. Dr. Paikin is co-editor of a recent scholarly volume on international order, entitled Rebooting Global International Society: Change, Contestation and Resilience, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Dr. Trita Parsi is the 2010 recipient of the $200,000 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. He is an award-winning author focusing on US foreign policy in the Middle East. He has been named by the Washingtonian Magazine as one of the 25 most influential voices on foreign policy in Washington, DC, for the last four years in a row. Dr. Parsi is the Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, New York University, and George Washington University. He currently teaches at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.